Holocaust Time Line

  • Hitler and the Nazi party take Over Germany

    Hitler and the Nazi party take Over Germany

    On January 30, 1933 Hitler and the Nazi party took over Germany, and started the persecution of the Jews.
  • The Jewish Boycott

    The Jewish Boycott

    The Nazis organized a nationwide boycott of all Jewish businesses. However the German people continued to shop at these places and the boycott was quickly removed.
  • Burning of Books

    Burning of Books

    The Nazi party began burning all books that were considered non-German, or against what they wanted the people to believe.
  • Nuremburg race laws

    Nuremburg race laws

    Hitler and the Nazi party pass the "Nuremburg Race Laws", these laws provided the legal structure for the systematic persecution of Jews in Germany.
  • Territory expansion

    Territory expansion

    Germany annexes neighboring countries of Austria, Sudetenland and occupies Czech lands
  • Kristallnacht

    Kristallnacht

    The Nazi regime coordinated a wave of antisemitic violence on November 9-10 in 1938
  • The Registration of Children with Disabilities

    The Registration of Children with Disabilities

    Parents and midwives were encouraged to register any children with disabilities to state-run residential clinics. When children were surrendered to these clinics the medical staff would secretly murder the children by starvation or lethal injection.
  • The start of WW2

    The start of WW2

    Nazi Germany starts WW2 when they attack Poland on September 01 1939
  • Warsaw ghetto is sealed

    Warsaw ghetto is sealed

    The Warsaw ghetto holding thousands of Jewish people was sealed off with a ten foot high barrier topped with barbed wire.
  • The solution

    The solution

    Beginning in 1941 the Nazi leaders decided to implement the mass murder of Europe's Jews , They called this the "Final Solution".
  • Auschwitz-Birkenau

    Auschwitz-Birkenau

    This is part of "The Solution", these concentration camps were used to kill hundreds of thousands of Jews during the holocaust.
  • Soviets Liberate Auschwitz

    Soviets Liberate Auschwitz

    The Soviet Union liberate the jews in Auschwitz on January 27, 1945